i put a 60gig drive in my rev A ibook, was a majour pain getting that thing apart but its worked fine ever since. i need to take it out and replace the stock hd in my 12" g4 ibook,…

I have the same iBook (500Mhz) and last year I replaced the 10GB hardrive with a Toshiba MK4025GAS which is a 40GB drive running (i think) at 5400 rpm. For how to do it look at th…

Quote: Originally Posted by willed I know there are older threads if I search, but capacities increase and I just wanted to check the current situation. I've got a 10GB HD in a…

Use an emply ice tray to organize the screws in the order you take them out. It makes it much easier to put them back in and hopefully not forget any. I've replaced iBook hard dri…

I also found this helpful guide: http://www.pbfixit.com/Guide/50.12.0.html

Great, thanks very much guys, very helpful. One more thing - can anyone recommend an equivalent to NewEgg.com that operates in the UK? [I'm sure I posted this before but it's di…

Finished my hard disk drive upgrade on my iBook! It now sports an 80 GB HDD, and is running smoothly! Next is the eMac... I will post some details of my iBook upgrading later on my…

Quote: Originally Posted by willed Great, thanks very much guys, very helpful. One more thing - can anyone recommend an equivalent to NewEgg.com that operates in the UK? [I'm…

Here's the iBook Hard Drive Upgrade article I promised.

*BUMP* Having finished my Finals I've now got time to mess about with this sort of stuff. Pricerunner.co.uk seemed to think this was a good deal. Any opinions?: http://www.qed-uk…

After what I have gone through today, I vow that I will NEVER buy another Dell computer again. I have a 4th gen. 15" powerbook, and two Dell desktop computers, at my home. One of…

Well with all the stories i read there, it can be either a nightmare or a dream with story with Apple. Before getting into Apple products, i owned 3 Dells, never had any problems …

Apple's customer service is among the best I have had to deal with. Anytime I have had to call for a hardware issue I have had someone on the other end within 2 minutes. I'm not st…

Apple's customer service was rated No#1 http://www.consumerreports.org/main/...=1116459925734

It's a good thing that Apple's customer service is still rated so highly, because I have been thoroughly unimpressed by their tier one techs. Whether they originate in India or Ame…

I love Apple computer and I ALWAYS buy their extended warranty and they ALWAYS go out of their way to help. That is one of the reasons that I buy Apple computers. The only other …

2,530,000 similar complaints now... But 9,610,000 for "apple computer problem" Perhaps you should try another rhetorical flourish?

of course, it's 42,500,000 responses for "windows problem"

14,300,000 for "PC died."

Actually if you enclose it in quotes Dell 3350 Apple 45 I think people just have a lot of problems and a lot of computers on the internet Either way Apple customer service is g…

You get'em. Maybe they should make a mini-long-commerical-spoof on Dell? Call it: "A nightmare on Dell Street"?

Quote: Originally Posted by kymacman After what I have gone through today, I vow that I will NEVER buy another Dell computer again. I have a 4th gen. 15" powerbook, and two Del…

By the way the Dual 2.3 is a great solution

Well if you understood how the tier process works in most companies....... believe it or not there are customers that would call support.... and find out they didn't plug the power…

Dell's support is aka New Delli. Its all outsourced to India. I have no problems with outsourcing. However the ability to understand the people is a necessity. Whatever country …